GeneDavis

Hey! Thanks for the look @Renerabbitt. I feel honored that the CA king of cabinets entered the room. I put my open-center door on the cab as a door panel, but did not try putting it on as a hinged door. Doing it as a hinged door gives me the shelves I need, but how do I get rid of the opening indicator in the 2D elevation?

See the pic. The cabinet at center of this vanity run has a drawer at top and under is an opening with two shelves. I want to dress the opening with a 1.25" frame surround, to bring the face out flush to the surrounding fronts. You can see the door object I made for this in the side panel. How is this done?

I'm in X17 using project management. I'd not had cab labels level turned on when sending my wall and section elevations to tje layout page, but now do. My two bath elevations display labels but no number of refreshes will work for the kitchen which has two wall elevations and two backclipped section views. i click the layout view, the view opens, labels all displaying, go back to laout, no labels, refresh, still no labels.

I'm in out of the box X17, fiddling with the lighting in a kitchen, and having trouble understanding how to control lighting objects by tweaking lumens levels. I have rope lights under wall cabinets, puck lights under a range hood, and an array of surface mount spots I built as solids and made to "have lights," plus a lineal pendant over the island I made and lit. The material (out of box) "lighting white" is used for the lenses of the pucks, the lineal pendant lens, and the lenses of the ceiling spots. Here is a view using standard camera, daylight set to day. All the lights I named above are turned on. Here is the spec panel one of the four puck lights I placed manually under the hood. The lighting has two components, a lumen strength setting for the bulb, and something called area lighting, apparently because of the material (lighting white) used for the lens. Note that in the camera view, something is lighting the range. It's not the pucks, because they are turned off. It is the lighting white material. But lighting white material is used in the pendant over the island, and in all the ceiling spots. Why aren't they emitting light in this standard camera view? Here is a PBR render, taken with daylight off. I want to dial back the undercab lighting, dial up the lighting from the ceiling spots, and dial down the hood lighting the range, but this area lighting is something I don't understand and seems to be messing with the scene.

You didn't need to add that second floor to gain heel height. Just raise the roof. You might learn something from this video. Check it out. Sounds like you want a platform of sufficient size in the attic for the air handlers and supply and return trunks, so the attic might just need 5 trusses to give an 8' long deck. You'll need to guess whether the truss engineer will do the trusses with a 2x10 or 2x12 bottom chord, but that'll all be figured at truss-quote time. Use attic walls parallel to the trusses so you only get the attic trusses you need.

Thanks, @DBCooper! Your 'chute musta worked, cuz yur still around.

I'm using out of the box X17 and having trouble understanding how to change text size for 2D camera views, both backclipped and wall elevation. Here is a screenshot of my cabinet plan for a kitchen with island. K1 and K2 were taken as wall elevations, and K3 is a backclipped section view. Note the size of the text in these is same as the cabinet callouts, and same as the dimensions shown. They are all sized for the K&B plan view. Now take a look at a screencap from a Chief video on the top of annotation using default sets, this one using the K&B view of a kitchen. Note the text size for the walls and section view. That's what I want. Larger. How do I get there.

If hand-drawn means squiggly lines, Chief does not have that option in 2D plans.

Thanks, @Chrisb222. That was it.

I used solids, blocked, to create the iron countertop brackets seen here. I want to display them in plan view using dashed lines, just as the under-counter base cabs and appliance display. See here. They are in their own layer, "Cabinets, countertops, brackets" and that layer is assigned dashed line. Since they are blocked, I changed the layer for Architectural Blocks to have the preferred line type and thickness. But none of this is producing the plan view I need.

I wanted a mid rail in a shaker style door for a tall cabinet, and specific placement, the rail not centered vertically. Took just a few minutes to make a group of 3D solids to emulate what I needed and convert to a door symbol.

Chief does not do 3D siding. It is a surface with a user-defined thickness and user-defined "texture" or surface imaging. Many of us here have discussed the board and batten pattern for vertical siding, which involves the use of the material region tool, but while that tool can both cut the planar surface of siding and project from it, it is rectilinear, in that you'll not be able to get that V-joint you want. Your metal panel has the same shape as V-joint wood paneling, so you should be trying to use one of those materials, edited for color and texture, to get the look you want. And you will be breaking your exterior walls each time you want to accent the vertical joint sections with horizontal joint sections.

I do it in the floor framing plan, with details. The framing is edited as needed. And on the architectural floor plan, just like Joey does.

Show us with a screencap what Chief is doing, please.

What I meant was to refer to the picture. Door on left is LEFT. As in, where it is. Not how it is hinged or how it swings.